Look at the photograph in the Telegraph of Brown 'speaking' to the Chancellor of Germany. His jacket is touching the Chancellor's hand, he is using the difference in height between men and women to lower over her, his face a sick, grey mask of aggression and demand. Brown is in Angela Merkel's personal space and threatening with it.
If the Chancellor of Germany were a man the equivalent body language would be a raised fist.
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No doubt the Prime Minister is giving Frau Merkel a browbeating about economics. I'm surprised he isn't jabbing her in the chest with his finger. The man is an out of control lunatic and he scares the Bejaysus out of me. Can we get him sectioned under the Mental Health Act?
So often is this question asked I thought it worth looking up some answers. Here they are, from the BBC Health website.
Mental health 'sectioning'
Who can be 'sectioned' under the Mental Health Act 1983?
People with different types of defined "mental disorder" can be admitted to hospital against their will under the Act.
These include those with "severe mental impairment", "psychopathic disorder" or "mental illness".
What happens during the sectioning process?
A patient can be sectioned if they are perceived to be a threat to themselves or other people.
Generally, a patient can only be sectioned if two doctors and a social worker or a close relative of the patient believe it is necessary.
One of these doctors is usually a psychiatrist. The other is often a doctor who knows the patient well.
However, in an emergency one doctor's recommendation may be sufficient.
An approved social worker also has to be involved in the assessment, and has to agree that being sectioned is the best course of action for that patient.
The social worker then makes the application for a place in secure accommodation for the patient.
Sectioning a patient enables doctors to assess the extent of the patient's mental disorder and, if necessary, to administer treatment.
How long can patients be detained?[this part is much more liberal than the powers police have to detain arrestees. Ed.}
...a patient...sectioned as an emergency case...[is]detained under section 4 of the Mental Health Act.
This enables doctors to detain them for up to 72 hours.
...the patient can [then] be detained under section 2 of the Act...for up to 28 days to undergo a full psychiatric assessment.
At the end of the 28-day period, if the medical recommendation is for the patient's stay in hospital to be extended, a further six months can be given under section 3 of the Act.
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Every patient should have a named "responsible medical officer" who has a duty to keep an eye on progress.
In addition, the patient themselves can appeal for release to the NHS trust which is detaining them.
The "nearest relative" also has a right to "order the discharge" of a patient.
However, doctors can block this by producing evidence that the patient still represents a risk to the public or him or herself.
If this happens, the relative cannot try again for another six months....
Between 1989 and 1990, 16,300 were given compulsory treatment against their will.
In 2000/2001, 26,707 were formally admitted against their will, in addition to 19,570 who went voluntarily to hospital in the first instance but who were then sectioned.....
Well, that seems to cover it .... Gordo clearly suffers from a psychopathic disorder, and he plainly represents a risk to the public. I think that funny jaw-dropping thing he does is a side effect of his medication .......
Dunno what he suffers from, Carter, except an exceptionally large dose of bad manners.
Newspaper reports of pushing and shoving and throwing at work don't reassure. But in that photo is a man far too close and menacing. How could he? He's been told and told about behaviour in public.
He's been hectoring and lecturing the Germans for a decade about the superiority of his slash & burn debt economy, and now the wheels have come off he has flip-flopped through 180 degrees and started crowing about the virtues of Keynes and statist intervention.
It must be exceptionally irritating to be subjected to such arrogant and dishonest nonsense.
I am in complete agreement with you over that photo. She has had to raise her hands in a brown mimimic type gesture to reinforce her boundary.
I am really pleased the Germans are standing up to his nonsense. I read a piece about Merkel on Mardel's blog recently (before this spat) and he was saying that Merkel listens to all opinions, looks at evidence and is very much scientific in her approach (she is a physicist by training). How that contrasts to our own "leader"'s hot air and assertion.
Lilith, this has got to stop. It's not just Brown - thought he is a truly appalling instance of what is just not acceptable.
Men with poor understanding also give themselves extensive licence to overstep any bounds of normal social interchange.
'Not my fault' they bray 'I'm limited in that direction and anyway it's a girly thing. I can crunch figures and analyse taxing data; and watch out or I'll crush you.'
The more women take high office the more this kind of behaviour is shrilly justified on the 'can't take the heat keep out of the kitchen' lines.
Normal men, that is men with acute and alert social skills find the Browns of this world just as distasteful.
And if Brown does that on the world stage to a woman, how does he behave within the confines of private and hidden-from-view official (i.e., in the office) life?
Interesting, Blue, that Chancellor Merkel is a physicist and Prime Minister Thatcher a chemist. Both grew up in command economies left over from World War 2, though the German Chancellor had it worse.
It's so pathetic to be posing as professionally competent with only an undergraduate degree, gained after two years and seven months of study and, on top of that pretending that post graduate qualifications in the political history of Scotland endow competence in running the Treasury.
Personally i think Frau Merkel could take him had it turned nasty.
So do I, Anon. But the lack of a handbag worries me. Perhaps she has spikes in her toe caps.
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